Zwift Course Calendar – May’s Guest World Schedule

With late January’s release of guest world functionality, Watopia is now available every day. The other four worlds rotate as the “Guest World” according to the calendar below, giving Zwifters access to two worlds (Watopia + Guest) at any given time.

May 2019

The schedule for May gives us 12 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.

Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

April 2019

The schedule for April gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”

Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

March 2019

The schedule for March gives us 11 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 4 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”

Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

February 2019

The schedule for February gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 4 in Innsbruck, and 2 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”

Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

January 2019

UPDATE: with guest world feature release, the daily guest map schedule will certainly be changing for January. We will update it here once a new schedule is available.

The schedule for January gives us 14 days in Watopia, 9 in London, and 7 in New York. Our guess is they are working on world choice/guest map option and this calendar could change during the month.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

Invisible Row

December 2018

The schedule for December gives us 15 days in Watopia, 9 in London, 6 in New York, and 1 in Innsbruck.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

November 2018

The schedule for November gives us 13 days in Watopia, 10 in New York, 5 in London, and 2 in Innsbruck.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

October 2018

The schedule for October gives us 16 days in Watopia, 1 in Innsbruck, 4 in London, and 10 in New York City.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

September 2018

The schedule for September gives us 11 days in Watopia, 15 in Innsbruck, 4 in London, and for the first time ever, 0 in Richmond.

With the UCI IRL worlds happening, lots of Innsbruck days aren’t surprising.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

August 2018

The schedule for August gives us 12 days in Watopia, 1 in Richmond, and 5 in London, and 13 in Innsbruck, the latest course on Zwift.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

July 2018

The schedule for July gives us 18 days in Watopia, 2 in Richmond, and 11 in London. We’re starting to see some events being held on “off-schedule” courses, which is an exciting development.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

June 2018

The schedule for June gives us 16 days in Watopia, 3 in Richmond, and 11 in London. With nine straight days of Watopia (2nd-10th) surely Zwift has something special planned. And three days in Richmond? Time to race!

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

May 2018

The schedule for May gives us 17 days in Watopia, 2 in Richmond, and 12 in London. Watopia tends to cover the second half of the week as well as the weekend, with London and Richmond in the early part of the week. We’ve also got a little more London than usual.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

April 2018

The schedule for April gives us 18 days in Watopia, 3 in Richmond, and 9 in London. With Alpe du Zwift rolling out soon, extra days on Watopia will be welcome.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

March 2018

The schedule for March gives us the same number of Watopia and Richmond days as last month, and quite a few London days as well (12). The second week of the month has 5 London days in row–what do you suppose Zwift has planned?

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

February 2018

The schedule for February gives us the same number of Watopia days as last month, but fewer London and Richmond days since it’s a short month. Generally speaking we’ve got London early in the week (beginning Mondays) and Watopia at the end of the week and over the weekend. 17 Watopia days, 9 London, 2 Richmond.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

January 2018

The schedule for January gives us nearly the same number of days in each world as last month… except… 3 days in Richmond?! Time to race! 17 Watopia days, 11 London, 3 Richmond. Looking forward to course expansions on both London and Watopia this month… perhaps London is coming on on the 8th?

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

Invisible Row

December 2017

The schedule for December gives us a little less Watopia and a little more London/Richmond that recent months. 18 Watopia, 11 London, 2 Richmond. Two Richmond days… when did that happen last?

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

November 2017

The schedule for November gives us the most Watopia days we’ve had in recent memory, with 22 Watopia days, 7 London, and just 1 Richmond.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

October 2017

The schedule for October gives us the most Watopia days we’ve had in recent memory. We’ve got a total of 20 Watopia days, 10 London, and just 1 Richmond.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

September 2017

The schedule for September is similar to August’s, with London generally running Sunday-Tuesday, and Watopia running Wednesday-Saturday… plus a couple Richmond days thrown in. We’ve got a total of 18 Watopia days, 10 London, and 2 Richmond.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

August 2017

The schedule for August is similar to July’s, although a bit more uniform. We’ve got a total of 18 Watopia days, 11 London, and 2 Richmond.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

July 2017

The schedule for July is quite different from June’s, with Watopia being featured later in the week for the first half of the month, then earlier in the week for the second half. Still just 2 Richmond days, but we have 17 Watopia days and 12 in London.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

June 2017

The schedule for June is quite different from last month’s, with Watopia being featured early in the week and a lot more London days. Our guess is ZwiftHQ is planning to release some major London updates in the next week or two and wants to let riders try out the new route(s)!

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

May 2017

May’s schedule is similar to April’s, but with a couple odd Richmond days and London only featured on two Sundays. We’ve got eleven straight days of Watopia from the 11th-21st… what does ZwiftHQ have planned?

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

April 2017

April brings our most confusing schedule in recent memory. ZwiftHQ must have some special events or course expansions planned! We still get Richmond on the 2nd and 4th Friday like last month, but London and Watopia are all over the place.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

March 2017

This schedule is a big change from the last several months, with Watopia and London switching timeslots. Instead of two Richmond Wednesdays we now have two Richmond Fridays. This is the biggest schedule shake-up since November 2016.

What do you suppose is happening on the 7th? Guess we’ll wait and see!

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

February 2017

This schedule matches January’s, with Watopia featured Sunday-Wednesday and London Thursday-Saturday, the exceptions being two Richmond Wednesdays.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

January 2017

This schedule basically matches November and December’s, with Watopia featured Sunday-Wednesday and London Thursday-Saturday, the exceptions being two Richmond Wednesdays.

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

Invisible Row

December 2016

This schedule is similar to November’s, with Watopia generally featured Sunday-Wednesday and London Thursday-Saturday, the exceptions being two Richmond days and a couple Watopia Saturdays (plus an odd Watopia Friday on December 9th–I wonder why that is?)

Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.

November 2016

This schedule is very different from the past couple months, swapping London and Watopia’s places in the week.

London moves to Thursday-Saturday, and Watopia is Sunday through Wednesday, with the exception of Wednesdays the 9th and 23rd, which will be in Richmond.

October 2016

The October course schedule for Zwift has been posted, and it is nearly identical to September’s schedule with London on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Richmond only being used two Wednesdays of the month, and Watopia on all other days.

The only exception to this schedule is we’ll be staying on Watopia Sunday, October 16th instead of riding in London.

I know it gets mentioned every couple months, but I really wish Richmond got a day every week. I don’t understand the huge priority London gets over Richmond since I like them both pretty equally. I do think Richmond needs the ability to do U-turns, though.

I like Richmond, too! But it seems like we’re in the minority. Perhaps ZwiftHQ will expand it and utilize it more in the future. Richmond is actually my favorite course for racing–I like how it’s structured overall.

Maybe this is the point. Zwift have left the world hack open to be used and can see how many people are using it and for which world. If more people want Richmond then more people would use the world hack for Richmond and i believe Zwift would put more Richmond days up accordingly. I world hack onto Watopia all the time because i want that mountain for my Tron Bike 50000 meters challenge. Once i’ve got my Tron Bike i’ll definitley be hacking into Richmond a lot because i do like the course, but at the moment it’s not what i’m working towards.

Would definitely love to see Zwift replicate some of the Dolomite days from Giro etc. Get some real mountains going instead of this little pussy one in Watopia.

Still think London gets far too much, Sat and Suns. please too much. Would not be so bad if the course was bigger. Not everyone wants to do Box or Fox hill laps and that infernal Subway climb. And please cut out the rain. Thats why we Zwift cos its raining outside.

Too much London is the reason my last ride on Zwift was over a month ago. I guess some people like it given it gets priority each month. Came here hoping for better news .. but alas London is still featured prominently.

I like the schedule change for March 17 as come Spring I start doing longer rides outside on a Sunday, and the thought of doing 3 or 4hrs round London on a Sunday is enough to make me want to go out lol…

Having Watopia on a Sunday over Winter works well as I don’t ride out much over Winter and a lap of the island is a lot longer than a London or Richmond lap. But why restrict Richmond to 2 times a month, it should be a weekly thing same as London or Watopia.

It seems the underlying theme here is one of preferences and choice which, at least to me, suggests that Zwift really needs to implement map selection. They have enough users now to allow that to happen without having to worry about not having enough riders on a given map so that it doesn’t feel empty. Oh and what is with the rain on Watopia now! Hope that was a mistake lol. Next thing you know they’ll add honking cars, screaming drivers, and snow! 😛

I noticed last week when it was raining in Watopia that a lot of people stopped on the side of the road. Is this like a mass protest or something? I hate rain there too. Please don’t add rain to Watopia. If I wanted to endure the misery of riding in a gloomy weather I would have not joined Zwift and just ride outside during the winter months.

Totally agree, ditch the rain and sort out the day/night cycles. Think it’s easy enough to keep to the approx day/night cycle of the respective courses. Shouldn’t be riding London in the dark when it’s 2pm in the UK, that’s just stupid.

On the other hand, I live in Seattle and if I want to ride after work it would ALWAYS be dark in London. I think the “days” are too short though and should be lengthened without changing the length of the “nights”.
I like the light rain but the heavy thunder and lightning weather is too much.

Michael
on March 19, 2017 at 10:34 pm

Same, I joined Zwift and kept having to ride London and haven’t played in awhile now. Wish they would bang out more course options, that London course is crazy boring.

Really, doesn’t anyone on here actually read through Zwiftblog? Why complain about the course not being the one you want on the day you want when you can all use the world hack and ride whatever course you want when you want to… http://zwiftinsider.com/world-tag-ios/

If you all want to ride Richmond, or wherever, on a Sunday morning then do so and Zwift will see that that’s what most people want.

I ride Watopia all the time because i want to complete my 50000 Tron Bike challenge. The courses are all open all the time for whenever you want them. Just use the world hack and ride wherever you wish to. Ergo, stop moaning and just get on with it. xxxx

It’s really easy to do. It’s not a lot of coding changes at all, you just have to go to your Zwift folder which should be in your documents folder and open your ‘prefs’ file in notepad and add the line… 1 as the last line above the line at the bottom. Then just save and close.

Open Zwift and you’ll find yourself on Watopia every time if you use 1 or Richmond if you use 2 or London if you use 3

Hopefully that should make it easier. Just don’t worry about all the coding stuff written in the prefs file, it’s completely irrelevant to what we’re doing, just paste in the world bits exactly where shown and that’s all you need to do.

Ok think I got it. Annoying everytime I switched tabs. I had to re open the Zwift file. I forget where I am in the process. I am a definite file 404 not found sort of person. But thanks for your help. Richmond and Watopia for me until they do something with London.

I don’t believe it. Zwiftblog recognized odd patterns in the agenda in all of the previous months, hinting at the possible release of new routes. Nothing ever happened, though weather in those months was on the edge of riding indoors vs. outdoors, so users might have been interested to try out. However, for the time being Zwift only needs rumors, as people just need enough of a spark of interest to stay subscribed. People will then return anyways in November and December. If Zwift wants them to return a bit earlier, it might make sense to release the expansion in September/October, at earliest in August (Tour of Britain is in September, by the way). But now? I’d only expect a small expansion at best.

Hopefully … but there was also a long stretch of Watopia in May that lead to nothing.

I don’t think Zwift will ever add levels above 25. You still accumulate XP even after 25 so those of us who have been playing for a long time would instantly hit any new level cap and be back at square one.

What’s more likely is they will completely remove all levels and convert XP to gold which you can spend on in game items. The Zwift profiles API has had a field for gold (currently 0 for everyone) for a long time so it’s definitely in the works.

An insider told me about the levels. Your current points are not accumulating to level 26, those km’s won’t start until they are released. (so I’m told) but, there is a chance they won’t be on the July update.

According to Zwift Blog level 25 requires 110,000 XP and I’m currently at 340,000 XP. Long term players like me would need levels 26-50 for it to be worthwhile and Zwift probably isn’t going to create enough new bikes or kits for that.

Benjamin
on September 22, 2017 at 3:02 pm

I’ve never understood why Zwift has a schedule instead of an option to select a course on the login menu? It must be possible, as we can do it through the prefs.xml hack.

I’m guessing it’s because Strava and other apps can’t deal with it. In order to map on Strava, Garmin, etc., these have to be in the real world. Just look at the mess apps make of Box Hill – can you imagine them trying to jump from the Pacific Ocean to Trafalgar Square?

I’m sure you’re right. But as you say Box Hill is a mess and Watopia bears no resemblance to the real world map; half of it is in the sea! Would it really matter if Richmond was plonked next to it in the Pacific?

I believe the reason they put Watopia where they did was to isolate it from the real world so they could create a fantasy cycling paradise. Richmond is Richmond and London is London.

As an ex- London urban combat cyclist (12.5 years) before i moved to Devon, i really love going back to London and riding some of the old roads without all the vans and taxis trying to kill me, but i really don’t like the Box Hill connection thing, but it was a work round to solve the problem of not having to create all those roads to do the full London course which would have been completely unaffordable for Zwift at the time. The last London expansion added a little more of the PRL course towards Box the real way, and being the ever optimistic person that i am, LOL, i’m thinking that over time, and with new investors coming on board, Zwift will hopefully fill in the rest of it, bit by bit, and connect Fox the proper way – which would be awesome. But that’s a lot of investment and will take some years to do.

I get your point though. It would be fun to be able to jump worlds a lot easier in Zwift without having to close the whole game, hack the pref file, and restart it all. I still don’t understand why they don’t just allow people to pick the world they want to ride at start up instead of this silly calendar thing. The worlds are accessible through hacking the pref file so i really don’t understand why Zwift don’t just let people pick when they start up the program – that would have to be the first step to get closer to what you are after, i think?

To answer your question I just get a little fed up that depending which world you ride (and I rode London earlier….on a Watopia day) you start from the same spot; to get to the same point (say the top of Watopia mountain) you have to go over the same roads….again etc etc. It would be a nice variant, on a lap of Richmond, to be able to break off half way along and ride Box Hill or whatever without changing maps or even to be able to start at the top of the mountain and just do a loop.

Anyway, at 61 I just use this to keep fit; to do my 60 – 75 miles a week which is usually impossible outdoors. I can just as easily do it using other apps which are (for now at least) free and give me much greater variety. So when my current month is up I’ll probably ditch it….not for the first time!

As an aside I’ve fought the London roads as well; back in the 1980’s I used to cycle from Harrow to Hendon every day and for about three years in the mid 1990’s in the summer months I would cycle from Chelmsford to the City and back a couple of times a week depending on the weather. Don’t think I’d dare risk that stretch from Stratford in to the City these days, though….

David Stakes
on October 19, 2017 at 12:38 am

Agree you should be able to pick your world on start up. Cannot really see any server problems with that. They may get a suprise as to what gets used the most. May help in where to spend their money.

Geoffrey… i do think the spawn point thing could do with sorting out. I can understand it being like it was when there wasn’t a map but now that there’s a map of the course it would be a great update to be able to pick your spawn point on the map and start wherever you want.

I’m hoping a lot of your ideas will be solved with future updates. Choice of world in which to ride, not having to close and re-open program to change worlds, choice of spawn point, etc.. I think these are all do-able as future updates. Fingers crossed.

Also think Zwift should allow resizing, moving and removing of on screen data. It’s all either too big, unnecessary or could be put in a much preferred place.

And likewise, i certainly wouldn’t be found riding around the real London ever again unless i’m in a closed course event. When i was younger i did enjoy the Urban Combat Cycling – especially in the city before congestion charging came in – the adrenalin rush was incredible and you had to be 100% focused to survive.

David… totally agree. If people could pick their courses easily at start up and also their spawn points it would definitely give Zwift much better feedback on future update areas.

And yeah, ditch the night time thing – or at least make it factual to what it is in that place at the time if they’re going to have night time. I watch ‘Treadmill TV’ videos when i’m on my treadmill and always play the super sunny ones. Who wants to run or ride indoors with dark, overcast, rainy virtual reality – i thought that’s why we did indoor training in the first place, to get away from those conditions.

David Stakes
on October 19, 2017 at 12:43 am

I would like to see the night gone, as whenever I ride here in Australia during the day.. It is always alot of night on Zwift, or at least get the cycle right. Doing a Pretzel takes 3 days. I am not that slow. Also ditch the rain. That is usually why we Zwift, cos its wet outside.

Hey Zwift generally a good experience but..any plans to *let the user* limit the number of riders – or eliminate completely – seen on the screen? I could barely see the pavement the other day. Awful! My buddy and I ended our ride early the other day because it was so distracting.

I’m sticking with Zwift for now, but I am hoping a competitor comes soon because not being able to race myself, having 1000 people on the same road as me, and having to edit the prefs.xml file to choose where to ride all seem like things a competitor would address.

Hopefully the London update is worthwhile. More flat roads would be boring. The London and Richmond course are just 90% flat runs. I don’t really get the point of doing then because you could just do the hilly route or even flat on watopia to get the same effect.

Eric. Can i ask you guys to do something a little different? Please publish the schedule a bit earlier. I lead the SMITE event on saturday mornings at 9am, and given it’s a strava segment oriented HIIT ride, there’s a tonne of work i need to do to scout the routes, select (and make the segments), before sending out a notice to all club members with the structure of the event. If it’s a simple matter of publishing the calendar early, that would be awesome! If there is some technical or other reason you can’t, i totally get it. Just thought i’d ask.

Half the month on Innsbruck including an 8-day stretch? Sure it’s UCI Worlds month and it’s a pretty good course but still, that’s a lot of time shoehorned onto the one small map* and one without a proper “flat” course. It lacks choice and variety of routes. In-game user world selection has GOT to be coming soon, right? Yeah, I’ve been saying that for some time now…

* Yes I know you can hack, but that’s almost beside the point at this stage.

Now there are several worlds, can Zwift please move to giving us a choice at the log-in stage. At least a choice of two. I like all of the worlds, but Richmond, Innsbruck and New York are small, and having the same small world day after day is, sorry, a bit boring!

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